The all-white bottlenose calf, which was swimming with around 200 other dolphins, was spotted by a lucky couple on their wedding day.
Newlyweds were treated to an incredibly rare sight on their wedding day when the whale-watching vessel they were aboard encountered an albino dolphin calf — likely the first of its kind seen in Africa.
"All of a sudden, I saw a white flash in the water among a pod of around 200 dolphins," Edwards wrote on Facebook ."When I saw it again, there it was, a beautiful [albino] calf." It is the first recorded sighting of an albino bottlenose dolphin in Africa, he added. The dolphin's solid white coloration hints that it is a true albino, rather than being leucistic, Erich Hoyt, a research fellow at Whale and Dolphin Conservation in the U.K. and author of the"Encyclopedia of Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises ," told Live Science in an email.
Image 1 of 2For some animals, being albino can greatly decrease their chances of survival, which is why albinism remains very rare in the wild and more common in zoos and aquariums. But for this individual, that may not be the case.
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